Well, I have no idea what is going on but I'm suspecting a hardware problem. In my last reply I was confident the problem was reproducible but as I continued to try things that proved to not be the case.
I switched to working with Chicken-5.3.0rc2 and the build there failed on creation of modules.db, again it was very reliably reproducible. Thinking this was maybe a race condition between the creation of the modules.db file and the following file copy I added a little code to read the file back and compare it. The problem went away. Unfortunately when I reverted the code the problem did not return. That does not make any sense whatsoever. Currently I'm able to get to where when I install the sqlite3 egg it fails with: Error: unterminated list If I run the install a couple times it results in a working egg. I'll keep chipping away at this but I don't think I have anything tangible to offer in terms of a problem statement other than ... "Windows sucks". On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 3:25 AM Peter Bex <pe...@more-magic.net> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 05:45:28PM -0400, Matt Welland wrote: > > Well, maybe there is a silver lining here, I can currently reliably > > reproduce the problem! > > That's excellent! Do you have to do any special steps, or does it > simply always happen? > > > One hypothesis I'm looking at is replacing calls using > with-input-from-file > > and with-output-to-file with open-*-file ... close loops for the reading > > and creation of the egg-info files. > > You're probably on the wrong track there. AFAICT, egg-info files are > only *created* in the foo.install.sh / foo.install.bat file, at the very > end where (on *nix) it uses cat(1) to write into it. > > If the file is already empty, changing how it's read won't make a > difference. > > The only way it would fail that I can see is if one presses ^C to abort > installation at a very unlucky time. This sounds like a race condition > but depending on the shell, it might be that it will process that signal > after evaluating the line that redirects stdout to the egg-info file, > but before actually invoking cat. Dunno, grasping at straws here :) > > Since you're using mingw, it's a UNIX shell at least. Could you try > inserting a sync(1) call at the end of the .install.sh file to see if > that fixes things? > > Cheers, > Peter > -- -- Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple. - Richard Branson.
